Fence project!

We had only a few items on our list that we wanted to check off and say "done!" - one of which was the fence. It was a chain link fence and the morning glory grew up it like a trellis. I hate morning glory. h-a-t-e. So today one half of the fence project is done. THANKS PAUL!

Before

During - no fence!

During - yay posts!

After (or nearly)

The puppies approve.

New Lens

I got a new lens today - a Nikon 50mm f/1.4G portrait lens. I'm not sure yet if I am gonna keep it or not. I have 30 days to make up my mind.


Here's a few pics I took indoors in low light. Of the pups, of course.

Violet never did grow into her wrinkles

The fruits of our labor

Broccoli seeds

Deformed strawberry. These seriously crack me up. This one is my favorite

The first yellow pear tomato, plucked this morning. It tasted wonderful.

Lady Bugs are cute

I checked on the ladies this morning. So far so good. There's still a ton of them out there wandering around.

I saw many of them munching on aphids. This made me happy.

My yard is kinda pretty

All our hard work paid off. I figured I'd post this almost updated pic so when winter comes around I can go back and remember what was. Most of my yard is still similar but some of the veggies are starting to end their season, blooms are coming to an end, etc.

Attack of the Aphids

I was snooping through the leaves of my brussel sprouts today and found this:

Ugh. Gross. Talk about giving me the heebie jeebies. So we called up the local gardening center and picked up a package of lady bugs - 1500 of them to be exact. I think that must be an exaggeration though. Good thing I find lady bugs adorable.

Here are a couple of them checking out my yellow pear tomatoes

Eat that aphid! EAT IT!!!

My poor baby

I noticed a lump on Sadie's paw the other day. I've already made an appt with the vet which is next week but in the mean time - what the hell is it? Sadie is young - not quite 2 years old. Not sure if that matters or not.

It's red because Sadie noticed it today and has been licking it which is making it bleed. I keep interrupting her so hopefully she can manage to leave it alone long enough for it to stop irritating her.

My sweeties

 So she won't leave the growth alone and it keeps bleeding. We have a cone/collar on hand so we cleaned it up and put it on her. She is SO SAD. Tail tucked and she wants us to hold her. She acts so scared with it on. Breaks my heart.

Needing a hug from dad

I'm a sad, sad pup